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Movie Hazard Analysis #01 · War Rig convoy

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Six steps, one control: do not dispatch

Every step in this haul opens with the same control: don't start it if you can't verify it.

Initial risk
20
CRITICAL
Residual risk
10
HIGH

Probability × severity, before and after the JHA’s controls. The highest-scoring step sets each band.

Movie Hazard Analysis #01 cover: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
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The work order

Movie Hazard Analysis #01 runs the War Rig convoy from Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) as if it were a real work order: six steps, hazard by hazard, controls, and initial vs. residual risk scoring.

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Steps 1, 3, and 5:

  1. Conduct crew briefing, route review, and War Rig pre-trip inspection
  2. Drive the loaded War Rig to Gas Town
  3. Arrive, position, and unload water and produce at Gas Town

What moved the risk

Pre-trip verification, restraint checks, and check-in intervals carry most of that reduction. Read the controls column and the pattern is hard to miss: do not dispatch, suspend travel, do not enter an uncontrolled receiving area. The decision to start is doing the heavy lifting.

FIELD NOTE

The transfer to real work. On any remote haul - pipeline, ranch, forestry, long-distance freight - the check-in interval is the rescue plan. Nobody is coming until someone notices you missed a call, which makes a missed check-in a safety event, not a paperwork one.

Every hazard, control and risk number shown comes from the JHA itself; nothing is invented or rounded for effect. Inspired by Mad Max: Fury Road (2015): commentary and hazard analysis of a fictional scene as depicted, with no affiliation with the film or its rights holders. The underlying JHA was generated with JHA Rapid, is AI-assisted, and must be reviewed by a qualified safety professional before use. Not a compliance document.

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